Shriver Center: Shedding Light on Medicaid Expansion in Health Reform

Our brilliant friends over at the Shriver National Center on Poverty Law wrote a fantastic piece on a little-known provision under discussion in the health reform debate: expansion of Medicaid, the nation's health program for low-income people, to cover all childless adults.  This provision would, for the first time, give comprehensive health coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income people with HIV. 

Here's a tantalizing snippet of the Shiriver article:

"While most of the public rhetoric on health care reform centers on the impacts on the health insurance industry and the great majority of Americans who struggle with the cost of insurance, the potential loss of insurance and the cost of health care, there is another very important part of the debate that involves the access to insurance and access to health care for low income people.  While this does not have the visibility of the "public option" debate, it is probably at least as important, in terms of reducing the numbers of uninsured."

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